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00:01:15Railroading is a fascinating business.
00:01:18Fascinating to everyone.
00:01:20Small boys,
00:01:21idlers at a whistle stop,
00:01:23restless adolescents,
00:01:25the traveling public.
00:01:27Yes, and fascinating even to the railroad men themselves.
00:01:31Every year the railroads carry millions of passengers
00:01:34and billions of dollars worth of goods.
00:01:36We all know the engineer,
00:01:38the fireman,
00:01:40the brakeman,
00:01:41the conductor,
00:01:42the postal clerk.
00:01:44But few of us know anything about the great body of trained men
00:01:47who guard those millions of lives
00:01:49and billions of dollars in property by day and by night.
00:01:52The railroad detectives.
00:01:54They were organized for the railroads long before the Secret Service
00:01:57or the FBI,
00:01:58the Burns operatives,
00:02:00or the Pinkertons.
00:02:01For more than a hundred years,
00:02:03the special agents have tracked down train wreckers,
00:02:05hold up men,
00:02:06card sharpers,
00:02:07baggage thieves,
00:02:08and all the other criminally minded
00:02:10who prey on the railroads,
00:02:12passengers,
00:02:13and their freight.
00:02:14In crowded cities,
00:02:15the job is usually exciting
00:02:17for something is always doing.
00:02:19And in the freight yards, too,
00:02:21where thieving is a favorite pastime
00:02:23of the neighborhood hoodlums.
00:02:25But in the out-of-the-way places,
00:02:27the routine can be a boring grind.
00:02:30One the old timers are anxious to escape.
00:02:33And it is to these more or less quiet spots
00:02:35that the new recruit is sent.
00:02:37But they also serve who stand and wait.
00:02:40In the afternoon of May 9th, 1940,
00:02:43in Santa Marta,
00:02:44a division headquarters in California,
00:02:46investigator Johnny Douglas
00:02:48was one such recruit who stood and waited,
00:02:50bored,
00:02:51wondering if anything would ever happen
00:02:53to relieve the monotony.
00:03:00Hiya, Johnny.
00:03:01I'm tired.
00:03:02Doing what?
00:03:03Nothing, that's why I'm tired.
00:03:06Well, if it isn't smiling Johnny Douglas,
00:03:09people's protector.
00:03:11Shh.
00:03:12Listen.
00:03:13What is it?
00:03:14Thought I heard something.
00:03:16You got that way after a while.
00:03:18I used to think I heard things, too.
00:03:20I was positive I heard the violent thrashing
00:03:22of bees' wings,
00:03:23or maybe a wood tick.
00:03:25You're bad.
00:03:26I'm bored.
00:03:27Wanted to get a report?
00:03:29What would I report?
00:03:30Nothing ever happens in Santa Marta.
00:03:33Except you.
00:03:34You know, you're the nicest thing that's happened to me
00:03:36since I was sentenced to this devil's island.
00:03:38You and Jake and Pop Peters and Maple Rumper
00:03:41are two kids.
00:03:42You know, come to think of it,
00:03:44quite a few nice things have happened to me
00:03:46since I've been here.
00:03:47Well, you could be in worse places.
00:03:49At least the scenery is wonderful.
00:03:51I love it.
00:03:52Want a cup of coffee?
00:03:53Again?
00:03:54Gotta do something to stay awake.
00:03:56Well, where did I give this to my boyfriend?
00:03:58Forgot it on purpose, as usual.
00:04:00You're going to stop pampering that youngster
00:04:02and stop spoiling me.
00:04:03Haven't missed paying him off since I was three.
00:04:05Guess I should have been an engineer.
00:04:25Hello, Lucy.
00:04:26Hello, John.
00:04:27Hello, Mr. Jones.
00:04:28Tell Mr. Jones I'll send that rug pattern back next week.
00:04:30No hurry.
00:04:31Well, Pop, see you in Eltonville.
00:04:33Yeah.
00:04:34Thought you were smart, didn't you?
00:04:36Now, you leave this on.
00:04:37Oh, for heaven's sakes, Lucy.
00:04:39See that he wears it, Jake,
00:04:40and don't let him stick his head out of the cab.
00:04:42Just leave him to me, Lucy.
00:04:43I'll see that he behaves.
00:04:44What am I going to do with her, Johnny?
00:04:46Don't look at me, Pop.
00:04:47I'm a very happy man.
00:04:48Why don't you trade her in?
00:04:49Oh, had her too long.
00:04:51No trade in value.
00:04:52Listen, you.
00:04:53You're crazy about me and you know it.
00:04:55And I meant what I said about the scarf.
00:04:57I'd wear a rattled snake around my neck
00:04:59if you told me to.
00:05:01Johnny, if anything ever happens to me,
00:05:03you look after her, will you?
00:05:05I've been trying to take her off your hands for six months.
00:05:07She's partial to engineers, though.
00:05:09Listen, one helpless male is about all I can manage at a time.
00:05:13Bye, Pop.
00:05:14So long, Pop.
00:05:15Goodbye, honey.
00:05:16Bye, Johnny.
00:05:17Bye, kid.
00:05:18Bye.
00:05:19Well, what's the matter, Mabel?
00:05:21Deeper and deeper.
00:05:22Well, what's the matter, Mabel?
00:05:23He forget it again?
00:05:24He'd forget his head if it wasn't hooked on him.
00:05:28Jake?
00:05:29Your lunch.
00:05:30Well, well.
00:05:31If it ain't that Rumper woman.
00:05:33How do you do, Mrs. Rumper?
00:05:34A couple of nice-looking kids you got there.
00:05:36Well, you get down here and kiss these nice-looking kids goodbye.
00:05:39All right.
00:05:45Oh!
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00:05:49I'll claim that one all right.
00:05:51But you?
00:05:52Why, you look like a ringer.
00:05:53You ain't no Rumper.
00:05:55With coal dust on his face, he couldn't be nothing else.
00:05:57Go on, kiss him.
00:05:59After all the years you ate coal dust, another mouthful won't hurt you any.
00:06:03Hard.
00:06:04Now, you stick to soft coal, son, and you can fire a boiler twice as fast.
00:06:09Goodbye, kid.
00:06:10Bye.
00:06:11You be good boys.
00:06:13Bye, Pop.
00:06:14Bye.
00:06:15Bye, honey.
00:06:21Bye.
00:06:51I wonder if you'd have that look in your eye for me if I went away, huh?
00:07:12Try it and see.
00:07:15On that morning in early May, old number six, a combination freight and local passenger,
00:07:20the Twin Peaks grade as she had been doing for years. There was no sense of
00:07:23danger, no premonition of disaster. To engineer Peters and fireman Rumpler, it
00:07:29was just another routine trip, as it was to mail clerk Simmons, who was calmly at
00:07:34work sorting the mail. The presence of two large registered mail bags,
00:07:38containing among other things a hundred thousand dollar payroll, didn't bother
00:07:42him in the least. In the day coach, the passengers idled the time away in
00:07:46reading or talking, or in the case of the young couple who looked like they were
00:07:50on their way to get married, holding hands.
00:07:54Magazines, oranges, nice fresh oranges, apples, we better get something to nod, folks.
00:07:58We're coming to a tunnel.
00:08:02A few moments later, number six entered tunnel 13. She was moving slowly on
00:08:16account of the steep grade, and judging by the smoke that poured from the
00:08:20smokestack, fireman Jake Rumpler was giving her everything she had taken.
00:08:32The train came to a stop with the passenger coach still inside the tunnel.
00:08:41There were no flares on the track, no visible reason for stopping. This is the
00:08:46first time we ever stopped in this tunnel. You must have a pull of the
00:08:49engineer. What are we stopping here for? What's wrong, Joe? I don't know, I'm going
00:08:58back to set a flare.
00:09:03Set the emergency brakes, I'll go forward.
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00:11:07He's a runaway, target number six.
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00:11:48At 2.45 that afternoon, Bill Olmstead, division superintendent, received the
00:11:53breakies call in his office at Santa Marta.
00:11:56Hold the line. Miss Peters, Lucille! Tunnel 13?
00:12:02Where's Johnny Douglas? Send him in here right away.
00:12:06Johnny?
00:12:07He entered in the mail car. Here's Johnny Douglas now. He's been in accident at
00:12:11number six at tunnel 13. Get the details.
00:12:13Douglas speaking. Yeah, go ahead Lolo, give it to me.
00:12:18Yeah. Simmons, the mail clerk.
00:12:21Yeah. Jones too, huh? Yeah, we'll get there as soon as we can.
00:12:26Olmstead will order a wrecking crew down to Meltonville.
00:12:29Back number 18 up on a siding so we can get through.
00:12:33Yeah.
00:12:36Okay.
00:12:40Dunlow was reporting from the junction.
00:12:43Cars broke loose from number six. He went back to the tunnel where the
00:12:46explosion occurred and found the mail car blown open and robbed.
00:12:48Two mail sacks with $100,000 are missing.
00:12:52What is it, Johnny?
00:12:54Your dad.
00:12:57He's dead?
00:13:01Yeah.
00:13:03He and Rumpler both, along with Simmons and Jones.
00:13:08Oh, I'm sorry, honey.
00:13:15All right, Johnny.
00:13:16All right, Johnny.
00:13:19Things do happen in Santa Monica, don't they?
00:13:24Somebody has to tell Mabel Rumpler.
00:13:30It's up to you now, Johnny.
00:13:34Yeah.
00:13:36Get me an engine as quickly as possible, all right?
00:13:40Get me Chief Special Agent Wilcox.
00:13:43Wilcox is ready for just such an emergency.
00:13:46While still listening to details of the robbery and killing,
00:13:49he starts alerting all agencies at his disposal.
00:13:52All special agents and investigators are notified
00:13:55within a radius of 100 miles of Santa Marta.
00:13:58The Post Office Department, the Railway Express Company
00:14:01are notified, too, and the FBI.
00:14:06A special plane, meanwhile, makes ready to transport
00:14:09Wilcox, postal inspectors, and express company detectives
00:14:12to Santa Marta, where they will join Johnny Douglas
00:14:14in the greatest criminal manhunt in the history
00:14:17of California railroading.
00:14:19Okay.
00:14:20Great. All righty, Chuck.
00:14:22We're not back till the time Wilcox and his men get here.
00:14:24Have him set up.
00:14:31Tell me.
00:14:34What happened, Mr. Douglas?
00:14:36Number six was held up.
00:14:38Your husband, Pop Peter, Simmons, and Jones were all killed.
00:14:42That's all we know right now, Mr. Douglas.
00:14:44I'm going out there.
00:14:45I'll talk to you when I get back.
00:14:47I'm going with you.
00:14:49You can't help Jake out there.
00:14:51I'm sorry, Mabel.
00:14:52I want to be with him.
00:14:54Johnny's right, Mabel.
00:14:55We'll get the children and go over tonight.
00:15:06Sheriff here.
00:15:07Here, Johnny.
00:15:08Only I can't swear for these hounds.
00:15:10They haven't been worked lately.
00:15:12The predators are plain lazy.
00:15:14What happened, Johnny?
00:15:16A wreck?
00:15:17Yeah, Jake.
00:15:18A wreck.
00:15:19Let us go with you, Johnny.
00:15:21No, not this time, Jake.
00:15:22I think you'd better run along.
00:15:23Go on.
00:15:24I'll look at more once you're here.
00:15:25Okay, Jake.
00:15:26Make a noise like an engine.
00:15:27Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
00:15:44Come on, Sheriff.
00:16:10You'd better stay here with the car in the dark
00:16:11and look after the body.
00:16:12Come on, Sheriff.
00:16:14Come on.
00:16:40You better not.
00:16:41There's a chance there's still some fingerprints on it.
00:16:43They must have known
00:16:44number six slows to a wrack in the tunnel.
00:16:48There are a lot of footprints around here,
00:16:50but only two sets leading up the hill.
00:16:52Yeah, well, it wouldn't have taken
00:16:53more than two to handle the job.
00:16:55Let me see.
00:16:56One of them could have stood here.
00:16:58The other could have hopped aboard
00:16:59in the middle of the tunnel,
00:17:00maybe dropped down in the engine cabin
00:17:01atop the east entrance there.
00:17:04Yeah, that's a trail, all right.
00:17:06Well, you'd better put those dogs on it
00:17:07while it's still fresh.
00:17:08Right.
00:17:13Run them down to Santa Marta
00:17:14and wait for Wilcox and the gang.
00:17:15We'll see you back there later.
00:17:16Gotcha, Johnny.
00:17:25Take them up on the hillside there, Rupert,
00:17:26and turn them loose.
00:17:43Oh, no!
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00:18:43Oh, no!
00:18:51Well, they had something hid out here.
00:18:53A car, most likely.
00:19:02Oh, no!
00:19:13Hey, there was a car, all right.
00:19:14Those tracks are fresh.
00:19:15Right, Johnny.
00:19:16There was a logging camp around here once.
00:19:17Maybe that's how they knew about the road.
00:19:19Well, those dogs won't do much good.
00:19:20You'd better put them on the leash.
00:19:21Right.
00:19:22Okay, Pete.
00:19:23You take the dogs and follow us.
00:19:25We may need them again later.
00:19:27Okay, Pete.
00:19:28We're getting too shaky.
00:19:29We may need them again later.
00:19:30Okay, Pete.
00:19:31We're getting too shaky.
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00:25:47Now lie still, and I'll find your ankle.
00:26:02There, rest your head on that.
00:26:08Easy, easy, Ed.
00:26:13It hurts like the real dental.
00:26:21I'd better tell you when. Ready?
00:26:24Pull!
00:26:31It's probably swollen, but...
00:26:38I don't think it's broken.
00:26:40Just a bad sprain.
00:26:44I'll take a look.
00:26:50This is what I meant when I said we might need this place in case anything went wrong.
00:26:57We could hide out here for a month if we had to.
00:27:01Yeah. If it hadn't been for this ankle, we could have brought the other mail sack with us.
00:27:05Forget it, kid. It wasn't your fault. It was an accident.
00:27:10It may be for the best. We lay low until the search lies down,
00:27:14then we go back and pick up the mail sack.
00:27:21Better?
00:27:23Yeah, a lot better, Ed.
00:27:26If only I...
00:27:28Only what, Paul?
00:27:30I wish you hadn't killed those men.
00:27:32You said we weren't going to do any shooting.
00:27:34I told you we wouldn't do any shooting unless we had to.
00:27:39When they saw your mask and they saw your face, there was nothing else I could do.
00:27:43Now forget it.
00:27:45I can't forget it.
00:27:47Killing those men, especially that old fellow.
00:27:51He looked just like Grandfather Delano, that old priest at the mission.
00:27:55His face was so gentle and so kind.
00:27:59It was them or us, Paul.
00:28:01And we've gone too far to be squeamish.
00:28:04You heard Grandfather Devereaux.
00:28:07The shooting and killing that took everything away from our family in the old days.
00:28:11You haven't forgotten, Paul?
00:28:13We swore we would make the name of Devereaux mean something again.
00:28:19And we will, too.
00:28:21Everything is going to turn out just as we planned.
00:28:24You take a smoke while I fix us something to eat.
00:28:27Then we'll open the mail sack.
00:28:29Okay, Ed.
00:28:32That's all.
00:28:34How much do we have there?
00:28:36$1,126.
00:28:38The payroll is in the other sack.
00:28:40That's all right.
00:28:42Maybe it isn't such a bad break after all.
00:28:44It's in a safe place.
00:28:46Soon as things cool off, we'll go back and pick it up.
00:28:48Meantime, we can get along on this.
00:28:50Uh-huh.
00:28:52How long do you think we'll be cooped up here?
00:28:54Who knows? Maybe a week, two, three.
00:28:56Until those railroad detectives go back to pushing hobos around.
00:29:00Anyway, it'll be that long before you can walk again.
00:29:02I wasn't thinking myself, Ed.
00:29:04I was worrying about Grandpa Devereaux and...
00:29:06And Rose McCreary?
00:29:08I told you to forget her.
00:29:10Are we risking our necks to make a Devereaux out of a barber's daughter?
00:29:13Are we?
00:29:15I don't know, Ed. I don't know what to think.
00:29:17But you can't make me believe that all this shooting and killing and stealing will ever get us anywhere.
00:29:25You're in for a lot of false leads, Johnny.
00:29:28You know the tricks people's imaginations play on them.
00:29:30The minute they read or hear of this crime,
00:29:32they'll remember a thousand suspicious actions by a thousand different people.
00:29:37You'll get an awful lot of tips.
00:29:39The worst of it is, you'll have to run most of them down
00:29:41in the hopes that one of them will be worth something.
00:29:44You wanted a job, Johnny.
00:29:46Well, you've got it.
00:29:48Well, I don't mind.
00:29:50I've got four good reasons for wanting to capture these men.
00:29:52Lucy, of course.
00:29:54Yeah, and Abel Rumpler and their two kids.
00:29:56I'll keep in touch, Bill.
00:29:58If anything happens, just pass it on to me.
00:30:00Okay, Johnny.
00:30:02Goodbye.
00:30:06Anything I can do before I go?
00:30:08No, all the arrangements have been made.
00:30:11General services will be held for all four at noon.
00:30:14I'm sorry I can't be there, honey.
00:30:16You understand.
00:30:18Of course.
00:30:20It's going to be kind of lonesome without you and Dad.
00:30:22Well, I'll be back as soon as I can.
00:30:25Why don't you ask Olmstead for a few days off?
00:30:27No, I do the work.
00:30:29I'll feel much better in thinking that I have a little part
00:30:31in running down those men.
00:30:33Maybe it's better that way.
00:30:40How's Mabel holding up?
00:30:42All right.
00:30:44Seems kind of strange, though, not to hear her laughing.
00:30:46And the boys?
00:30:49Oh, it was awful, Johnny, just awful.
00:30:54♪
00:31:25♪
00:31:32Three and a half hours later,
00:31:34Special Agent Douglas arrives on the campus
00:31:36of the University of California
00:31:38to enlist the aid of Dr. Jerome Bowen,
00:31:40Associate Professor of Legal Chemistry
00:31:42and one of the foremost criminologists in the country.
00:31:44Well, that's it, Dr. Bowen, the whole works.
00:31:46What do you think?
00:31:48War and peace, hmm.
00:31:50Interesting sidelight on character analysis.
00:31:52Must remember that.
00:31:55However, you better run this down.
00:31:57And this.
00:31:59Hmm, better take those along, too.
00:32:01The rest you can leave with me.
00:32:03How long do you think it'll take?
00:32:05How long do you think it'll take me to correlate
00:32:07all these scraps of evidence?
00:32:09Well, not during my lunch hour.
00:32:11Well, if you could only give us some idea.
00:32:13We're pretty well stymied.
00:32:15Well, two weeks, maybe three.
00:32:17I'll get in touch with you the minute we're finished.
00:32:19Don't worry.
00:32:21I'll try to be patient.
00:32:24Wilcox proved that he knew what he was talking about.
00:32:26Superintendent Armstead received
00:32:28hundreds of calls from all parts of the state.
00:32:30He sifted the calls
00:32:32and relayed on to Johnny
00:32:34the ones which he thought were worth checking.
00:32:36A woman who ran a grocery store in Brookville
00:32:38recalled selling a slab of bacon
00:32:40to two men who were dressed like lumberjacks.
00:32:42A hardware store proprietor
00:32:44in Sunrock remembered
00:32:46selling two boxes of .30-30 rifle shells
00:32:48to two men dressed as lumberjacks.
00:32:50But his description didn't tally with the woman's.
00:32:53The first bit of tangible evidence
00:32:55came from the bookstore in Lindhaven
00:32:57where the proprietor remembered
00:32:59selling the book some two months previous
00:33:01to one of two men who came into his store.
00:33:03I remember, because we rarely
00:33:05sell a book of this type.
00:33:07It isn't exactly what you call popular reading.
00:33:09Can you remember what they looked like?
00:33:11Yeah, they were dark-featured.
00:33:13I remember wondering at the time if they were brothers.
00:33:15About their size?
00:33:17One was tall, well-built, over six feet.
00:33:19The other was
00:33:21slightly shorter.
00:33:23How were they dressed?
00:33:25In rough clothes,
00:33:27with wool shirts,
00:33:29and their trousers tucked into high-lace boots.
00:33:31Oh, they had cleats on their boots, too,
00:33:33like the lumberjacks wear.
00:33:35Look what they did to my floor.
00:33:37Can you remember anything else
00:33:39about them? Any
00:33:41physical deformity
00:33:43or peculiarity that might make them noticeable?
00:33:45No, I'm afraid I can't.
00:33:47Did you see what kind of a car they were driving?
00:33:49I'm sorry, I didn't.
00:33:51They went out, and I paid no more attention.
00:33:53You've given us the first bit
00:33:55of real evidence we've had so far.
00:33:57Not much, a little.
00:33:59Much obliged to you.
00:34:01Oh, don't mention it. Only too glad to help.
00:34:03Oh, I might add that the men
00:34:05whom I sold the book to didn't strike me
00:34:07as the type who'd hold up trains or commit murders.
00:34:09There's no specific type of criminal.
00:34:11The one person in the world
00:34:13you'd least suspect could turn out to be a murderer.
00:34:15Well, thanks again.
00:34:19Like the bookstore proprietor
00:34:21in Lindhaven, she too
00:34:23remembered the two men because they had damaged
00:34:25the floor with the cleats of their heavy boots.
00:34:27Well, I'll tell you, it was hardly more
00:34:29than three weeks after it was laid.
00:34:31I was never so disgusted with anything or anybody
00:34:33in all my born days.
00:34:35There, just look at that.
00:34:37Isn't that an outrage, Mr. Douglas?
00:34:39To think anyone would have so little consideration
00:34:41for public property.
00:34:43Pass my assistant.
00:34:45I'll be back in a minute.
00:34:47Tess, my assistant, saw them get up.
00:34:49There were two of them, you know.
00:34:51And she came to tell me that by the time
00:34:53she found me, I was in sociology
00:34:55doing research for the Cullen twins.
00:34:57But naturally, Tess had no way of knowing that.
00:34:59They were on their way out the door.
00:35:01Oh, if only I could have gotten my hands on them.
00:35:03Those two men were murderers, Miss Tannehill.
00:35:05Murderers?
00:35:07Yes, they tore that page from your files
00:35:09and used the knowledge they found in it
00:35:11to hold up a train.
00:35:13Oh, think I came that near being murdered.
00:35:15What'd they look like?
00:35:17Well, they wore flannel shirts
00:35:19and jeans and denim jackets, too.
00:35:21They looked like loggers
00:35:23or cowhands.
00:35:25Loggers, most likely, on account of the cleats
00:35:27in their shoes.
00:35:29Still, on the other hand, they wore cowboy hats.
00:35:31Oh, my.
00:35:33To think I came that near dead.
00:35:35Oh, my.
00:35:37My. I have a notion to resign.
00:35:39If it wasn't for my sister
00:35:41and my invalid mother, I do declare
00:35:43Thanks a lot.
00:35:45Then that night,
00:35:47when Douglas contacted Santa Marta,
00:35:49he learned from Olmstead that a gas station
00:35:51attended in Los Portos
00:35:53remembered the car and the two men in it.
00:35:55Yes, sir. I put gas
00:35:57in that old jalopy... Let me see.
00:35:59Wednesday. No, Tuesday, a week ago.
00:36:01There were two men in that car.
00:36:03Looked enough alike to be brothers.
00:36:05Thanks a lot.
00:36:07After two weeks of exhaustive search,
00:36:09Johnny returned to compare notes
00:36:11with Dr. Bowen.
00:36:13From the overalls, I learned a good deal.
00:36:15For instance, uh, here.
00:36:17Look at that.
00:36:19Wood fibers. Both hardwood
00:36:21and bark. The owner of those overalls
00:36:23worked in a logging camp.
00:36:25Uh, here's another.
00:36:27Now.
00:36:29Black hair.
00:36:31Now, uh,
00:36:33note the size of this garment.
00:36:35From this and other factors,
00:36:37I'd say your suspect is about
00:36:39six feet two. Weighs
00:36:41around 195 pounds.
00:36:43Deeply tanned. Has black
00:36:45hair. And looks something
00:36:47like this.
00:36:51Now, uh,
00:36:53suspect number two is slightly smaller.
00:36:55Weighs around, uh,
00:36:57180 pounds. And is about six
00:36:59foot one in height.
00:37:01His hair is a shade lighter than the
00:37:03other man's, but it's still dark.
00:37:05He's probably younger and looks something like
00:37:07this.
00:37:09Now, judging from the
00:37:11striking similarity between hair
00:37:13and, uh, bits of epidermis
00:37:15found on the clothing, and other
00:37:17factors I needn't go into, I'd say
00:37:19these two men are brothers. Well, I've come to the
00:37:21same conclusion, Doctor.
00:37:23From the descriptions given to me by various people I've
00:37:25interviewed. Oh. I see
00:37:27you just wanted to see what I'd cook up, eh?
00:37:29That's right. Anyway,
00:37:31the descriptions jive pretty
00:37:33closely with yours, and that's the important thing.
00:37:35They were looking for two men
00:37:37who might possibly be brothers
00:37:39and who look alike.
00:37:41I've got something else here.
00:37:43Here, take a look at that.
00:37:45Ah.
00:37:47Looks like grains of salt. It is salt.
00:37:49Found in the pocket of the overalls. Salt.
00:37:51Sulfur salt. Type used by ranchers
00:37:53to, uh, as salt mix for cattle.
00:37:55Then our suspects
00:37:57were not only employed as lumberjacks,
00:37:59but quite possibly at one time
00:38:01or another could have worked on a cattle ranch.
00:38:03I'm certain that inquiries
00:38:05at logging camps and cattle ranches
00:38:07will lead to the identification of these
00:38:09two men.
00:38:11Still in big order.
00:38:13Although Johnny Douglas
00:38:15didn't know it at the time,
00:38:17that was the turning point in the Devereaux case.
00:38:19Three grains of salt.
00:38:29All right. Well, come here, let's see.
00:38:33I guess so.
00:38:37Why don't you leave that here, Ed?
00:38:39Why? I think it's been just about enough killing.
00:38:41Still worried about those train men, aren't you?
00:38:43Forget it.
00:38:45Wish I could, Ed.
00:38:47If we get separated, I'll meet you at the bus station
00:38:49in Los Puertos.
00:38:51Come on. We'll pick up the mail sack and be out of the mountains
00:38:53by daybreak.
00:38:55Hey, watch your foot.
00:38:57Yeah.
00:39:03This is about it.
00:39:05The tree must be over there.
00:39:07Let's go.
00:39:17Hang, fellas!
00:39:19No, don't!
00:39:33What'd you shoot him for, Ed?
00:39:35I had to. He saw our faces.
00:39:37He wasn't after us.
00:39:39Just a trapper.
00:39:41How would you know?
00:39:43Listen, we've got to get out of here.
00:39:45These hills are still full of searchers.
00:39:47This guy was probably one of them.
00:39:49What about the money?
00:39:51We haven't time for that now. It's safer where it is.
00:39:53Come on.
00:40:03Two tickets to El Splash.
00:40:25Let's have a cup of coffee while we're waiting.
00:40:27Why not?
00:40:33The Devereaux brothers
00:40:35did not go through to El Splash.
00:40:37That night around 10 o'clock,
00:40:39they dropped off the bus at High Water,
00:40:41about 60 miles south of Santa Marta.
00:40:43There they left the highway
00:40:45and cut across open fields
00:40:47to the old Devereaux Ranch,
00:40:49a once-proud domain in the heart of the cattle country.
00:40:51Hey, Ed.
00:40:53Look, someone's at the house.
00:40:55Let's go.
00:40:57In the bright moonlight,
00:40:59the old ranch house with its sagging fences
00:41:01looked like a once-beautiful woman
00:41:03grown old and slatternly.
00:41:13Looks like Frank Kenson's own horse.
00:41:15You know him, Ed.
00:41:17He's the foreman over Rancho Rosita.
00:41:19You suppose he's doing it?
00:41:21He'd better not be putting the pressure
00:41:23on Grandfather Devereaux again or I'll...
00:41:25Take it easy.
00:41:27We've had enough shooting.
00:41:29You can threaten me all you like,
00:41:31but you can't frighten me.
00:41:33Devereaux cattle have been watering Meade's Creek
00:41:35for a hundred years,
00:41:37and they'll continue to do so.
00:41:39But you don't seem to understand, Mr. Devereaux.
00:41:41That land doesn't belong to you any longer.
00:41:43You have no right to run your cattle there.
00:41:45It will be mine again
00:41:47once the old tax monies are paid up.
00:41:49You'll go back and tell those upstarts at Rosita
00:41:51they'll be crawling on their hands and knees
00:41:53before I get through with them.
00:41:55They'll be begging me for work.
00:41:57They'll be begging me for water
00:41:59when that land is mine again.
00:42:01Now go on. You get out of here. Go on!
00:42:03Oh, Edmund.
00:42:05Hello, Grandfather.
00:42:07Oh, I'm glad you're home.
00:42:09Mijitos, mijitos.
00:42:11Here I am.
00:42:13Here I am.
00:42:15Here I am.
00:42:17Here I am.
00:42:19Here I am.
00:42:21Here I am.
00:42:23Here I am.
00:42:25Here I am.
00:42:27Here I am.
00:42:29Here I am.
00:42:31Mijitos.
00:42:33What are you doing up so late?
00:42:35Isn't it past your bedtime?
00:42:37God bless the foreman from Rosita was here.
00:42:39We saw him leave. What's the trouble?
00:42:41The same old argument.
00:42:43We have no right to the land or to the water
00:42:45where our cattle feed and drink.
00:42:49And they speak the truth.
00:42:51That's the hard pill to swallow.
00:42:53There was a time when they wouldn't dare speak
00:42:55to a Devereaux in such a manner, even if it were the truth.
00:42:57The time isn't far off
00:42:59when that land will be yours again, Grandfather.
00:43:01We're going to buy it back.
00:43:03Right, Paul?
00:43:05Yes, Ed.
00:43:07We're working it out now, Granddad.
00:43:09But that's impossible.
00:43:11It will take a great deal of money.
00:43:13You mean that you really accomplished
00:43:15what you went to San Francisco for?
00:43:17That's right, Granddad.
00:43:19The banks are going to loan us the money.
00:43:21Aren't they, Ed?
00:43:23It's all fixed up, Grandfather.
00:43:25We're going back in a few weeks and pick up the money.
00:43:27Watch out for that Devereaux smoke.
00:43:29I can't believe it.
00:43:31I can't believe it.
00:43:33Naturally, it took a few signatures on our note,
00:43:35but we finally got your old friend Verdugo to sign.
00:43:37And from then on,
00:43:39it was easy sailing.
00:43:41My old friend Verdugo.
00:43:43After all these years,
00:43:45I told you he would remember.
00:43:47Will it be enough to buy back the Mead Creek property
00:43:49and stock it?
00:43:51Enough and more too.
00:43:53We'll fly high and fancy, Grandfather.
00:43:55$100,000.
00:43:57$100,000?
00:44:01But that...
00:44:03That's Aberdeen, boys.
00:44:05That calls for a drink.
00:44:07Such good luck calls for a drink.
00:44:09Can you imagine?
00:44:11We're going to have the old...
00:44:13The old Rancho Altos Montes
00:44:15back again.
00:44:17It's going to live again.
00:44:19Here, boys.
00:44:21Here, to the old...
00:44:23To the old Rancho Altos Montes.
00:44:25Here, boys.
00:44:29More than a week now,
00:44:31Johnny Douglas had been moving
00:44:33in an ever-narrowing circle
00:44:35with Santa Marta as the pivotal point.
00:44:37Three little grains of cowlick salt
00:44:39and a few woodbark fibers
00:44:41were all the leads Douglas had to work on
00:44:43as he went from lumber camp to cattle ranch,
00:44:45trying to identify the composite drawings
00:44:47of the two men prepared by Professor Bowen.
00:44:49Men seldom stayed long on these jobs.
00:44:52They came and went,
00:44:54and few questions were asked.
00:44:56Foremen were glad to get help
00:44:58and didn't bother much about a man's family connections,
00:45:00where he came from
00:45:02or whether or not he was drawing his pay
00:45:04under an assumed name.
00:45:06Then, just when the weight of discouragement
00:45:08rested heaviest on Johnny Douglas's shoulders,
00:45:10the three little grains of salt
00:45:12paid off with startling suddenness.
00:45:14Anything serious, Mr. Douglas?
00:45:16Train robbery and murder.
00:45:18You don't say.
00:45:20You want me, Mr. Travis?
00:45:22Oh, yes, Frank. This is Mr. Douglas.
00:45:24This is my foreman, Frank Kent.
00:45:26How do you do?
00:45:28Mr. Douglas here is looking for two men
00:45:30who were wanted for train robbery and murder.
00:45:32He has reason to believe that their brothers
00:45:34have been working as lumberjacks and cowhands.
00:45:36Look, you ever see two men
00:45:38who resemble these sketches?
00:45:40Why, of course.
00:45:42It'd have to be them.
00:45:44You mean you recognize them?
00:45:46I wouldn't want to put a rope
00:45:48What's worth?
00:45:50These two men are the Devereaux brothers.
00:45:52By Jove, I think you're right.
00:45:54At least they fit the description.
00:45:56These Devereaux boys work for you?
00:45:58Oh, they have occasionally.
00:46:00Well, their grandfather used to own
00:46:02most of this country around here.
00:46:04He lost it through bad management,
00:46:06one thing or another.
00:46:08Old man's pretty hot-headed.
00:46:10Boys are just like him.
00:46:12Well, they didn't hesitate to shoot
00:46:14four men down in cold blood.
00:46:16Well, you'd better go on into town
00:46:18and get some help from the sheriff.
00:46:20He'll never take those Devereaux boys
00:46:22without a fight.
00:46:24Thanks for the tip.
00:46:26I'm not trying to be a dead hero.
00:46:28How far is it to the next stop?
00:46:30Glenby's about 12 miles,
00:46:32straight up number 62.
00:46:34Oh, by the way,
00:46:36don't say anything about this
00:46:38to anyone, will you?
00:46:40I'm a lazy hunter.
00:46:42I'll take sitting ducks anytime.
00:46:44Hey, Burt, come on.
00:46:46We've got a job for you.
00:46:48What's up?
00:46:50Sheriff's getting up a posse
00:46:52to pick up the Devereaux boys.
00:47:14Mr. Devereaux.
00:47:16Hello, Rose.
00:47:18You're just in time to give me a hand.
00:47:20You see, this is a map
00:47:22of the original grant received
00:47:24by my family from the King of Spain.
00:47:26Mr. Devereaux, where's Paul and Ed?
00:47:28They must be somewhere around.
00:47:30Why, what's the matter?
00:47:32Something wrong?
00:47:34Well, they've got a letter
00:47:36from the King of Spain.
00:47:38What letter?
00:47:40I don't know.
00:47:42What's the matter?
00:47:44Something wrong?
00:47:46Well, that's what I came to find out.
00:47:48Call them, please, and hurry.
00:47:50You frightened me.
00:47:52What's the matter?
00:47:54Paul! Ed!
00:48:04Paul! Ed!
00:48:06Yes, what is it?
00:48:08Rose McCrary's here.
00:48:10She wants to see you both of you.
00:48:12She acts like it was important.
00:48:14I told you to keep her
00:48:16away from here.
00:48:18Listen, Ed, we've played everything your way so far.
00:48:20When it comes to Rose, I do as I please.
00:48:24Come along.
00:48:36Hello, Rose.
00:48:38Hello, Paul.
00:48:40Sorry to come busting in on you like this,
00:48:42but there's something you ought to know.
00:48:44What's that, Rose?
00:48:46One of Sheriff Dotson's deputies
00:48:48came running into the barbershop a little while ago
00:48:50and called out for a training.
00:48:52I heard him say the sheriff was getting up a posse
00:48:54to pick up the Devereaux boys.
00:48:56What is it, Paul?
00:48:58Why should the sheriff want you and Ed?
00:49:00You didn't get into trouble in San Francisco,
00:49:02did you, boys?
00:49:04Well, yes, we did.
00:49:06Listen.
00:49:08There's a cop coming.
00:49:15They're after us, Paul. We've got to run for it.
00:49:17There's no time for explanations now, Grandfather.
00:49:19We've got to get out of here.
00:49:21Come on, and don't be afraid to use that gun.
00:49:23Get in touch with it, Ollie.
00:49:36We'd better separate.
00:49:38I'll meet you with the mineshaft a week from today.
00:49:42Let him go.
00:49:44Let him have it.
00:50:06Come on.
00:50:26Come on, Devereaux.
00:50:29Okay, you squirt him out.
00:50:33My fault.
00:50:35It's all my fault.
00:50:37They're not to blame.
00:50:39I filled their heads with the crazy ideas
00:50:41about making the name of Devereaux
00:50:43mean something again.
00:50:45If it hadn't been for me,
00:50:47they would never have done such a terrible deed.
00:50:49I still can't believe they would do it.
00:50:51The fact that they ran away
00:50:53is pretty conclusive evidence of their guilt.
00:50:55Hello.
00:50:57Have you a recent photograph of your grandsons?
00:50:59No, sir.
00:51:01I have a...
00:51:03I have a snapshot they sent me
00:51:05from the Logan camp last winter.
00:51:07That'll do fine, thanks.
00:51:09Any luck?
00:51:11No, I'm sorry, Mr. Douglas,
00:51:13but we'll have to have horses to follow him.
00:51:15I'll drive you back, Sheriff.
00:51:17Have your men contact all farmhouses and ranches.
00:51:19Keep a close watch on all trucks,
00:51:21buses, and horses.
00:51:23Right, Edward.
00:51:28Mr. Devereaux.
00:51:30Yes?
00:51:32I've got one person left. Is she a relative of yours?
00:51:34You mean Rose? No, sir, no.
00:51:36She's the...
00:51:38She's the daughter of Sam McCrary,
00:51:40the barber in Glendale.
00:51:42She's Paul's girl.
00:51:44I see.
00:51:46Well, I'm sorry about all this,
00:51:48for your sake.
00:51:50It's not a very pleasant experience for either of us.
00:51:52Good night.
00:51:54Good night.
00:52:02Better leave a couple of men here
00:52:04in case they double back.
00:52:06All right. You and Bert stay here, Charlie.
00:52:08I'll have you relieved later.
00:52:10One of you cover the front and one the back.
00:52:12As soon as I get back to town,
00:52:14I'll have the telephone operators
00:52:16check the entire country around here.
00:52:23Hey, give me a ride into town,
00:52:25will you, mister?
00:52:27I've just been held up and my car's stolen.
00:52:29Oh, hello, Mr. Dodson.
00:52:31That's right. It was that youngest Devereaux boy, Paul.
00:52:33He looked kind of wild-eyed
00:52:35and stuck a gun in my side.
00:52:37Told me to get out, no argument.
00:52:39No use trifling with that Devereaux outfit,
00:52:41no telling what they're gonna do.
00:52:43Well, hop in. We'll drive you into town.
00:53:01Oh, my goodness, Nick.
00:53:03What is it?
00:53:05Paul!
00:53:07Turn off those lights.
00:53:09How did you get here?
00:53:11A hell of a man up and took his car away from me.
00:53:13You shouldn't have come here.
00:53:15I had to come for me.
00:53:17I had to come and try and make you believe
00:53:19that I was the one who stole your car.
00:53:21I had to come and try and make you believe
00:53:23that I was the one who stole your car.
00:53:25I had to come and try and make you believe
00:53:27that I was the one who stole your car.
00:53:29I had to come and try and make you believe
00:53:31that I didn't kill those men.
00:53:33You do believe me, don't you?
00:53:35I don't know what to believe.
00:53:37Get in there.
00:53:39Close the door.
00:53:41Keep an eye on her, Sheriff.
00:53:43I'm gonna have a look around.
00:53:55I'm sorry to trouble you, Mr. Perry,
00:53:57but there are a couple of questions
00:53:59I didn't get a chance to ask you out of Devereaux's.
00:54:01May I come in?
00:54:03Why, of course.
00:54:07Just what was it you wanted to know, Mr. Douglas?
00:54:09Well, considering you're Paul Devereaux's girl,
00:54:11it seems entirely likely
00:54:13that he'll try to see you.
00:54:15And if he does, try to convince him to give himself up.
00:54:17Because if he doesn't, we're gonna have to shoot it out
00:54:19with him, and in the end, he'll be dead.
00:54:21Anything else?
00:54:23Well, there's just a chance.
00:54:27Cute dog you have there,
00:54:29trying to get in that door.
00:54:31Oh, he wants a ball, that's all.
00:54:38If you don't mind, Mr. Douglas,
00:54:40I have to prepare dinner for my father.
00:54:42Certainly not.
00:54:44I just wanted to say that there's quite a reward
00:54:46out for the Devereaux boys.
00:54:48It might go a long way in fixing up a broken heart.
00:54:54Good night, Mr. Douglas.
00:54:56Good night.
00:55:08Paul, he's gone.
00:55:10Well, that was close.
00:55:12Listen, would you please hurry and get out of here?
00:55:14I have a feeling he's still hanging around outside.
00:55:16I'll step out the back way.
00:55:19No, wait.
00:55:21Take that door to the cellar.
00:55:23I'll go out and open the outside doors.
00:55:25My car's in the driveway.
00:55:27I don't need your car, darling.
00:55:29I still have the one I stole.
00:55:31I hid it in a grove at the edge of town.
00:55:33Once I get out of here, I'm all right.
00:55:37Good luck, Paul.
00:55:39Back for you, baby.
00:55:41You know that, don't you?
00:55:43Go, please, and hurry.
00:55:55Good night.
00:56:25Stop!
00:56:45Stop or I'll shoot!
00:56:47Gunshots
00:56:53The next ten hours, Rose McCreary was torn
00:56:55with doubt and uncertainty,
00:56:57plagued by a thousand fears.
00:56:59Was Paul alive?
00:57:01Was he lying by the roadside somewhere,
00:57:03nursing his wounds?
00:57:05Or was he dead?
00:57:07It seemed incredible that he should twice escape
00:57:09a deadly hail of bullets,
00:57:11and yet, and yet womanlike,
00:57:13Rose McCreary clung to the fragile hope
00:57:15of a new beginning.
00:57:23Now the chase began in earnest.
00:57:25For the first time,
00:57:27Douglas and the police knew for certain
00:57:29who they were looking for.
00:57:31Wanted for train holdup and murder,
00:57:33Edmund and Paul Devereaux, brothers.
00:57:35Description as follows.
00:57:37Edmund Devereaux, six foot two inches,
00:57:39black hair.
00:57:41Hello, Salt Lake City. Sacramento calling.
00:57:43We're on the lookout for two men wanted for murder
00:57:45and train holdup. Description as follows.
00:57:47Attention, listeners.
00:57:49The two men who shot it out with railroad special agents
00:57:51and sheriff's deputies yesterday afternoon
00:57:53near Glen Bay were still at large today
00:57:55with every police agency in the state alerted
00:57:57and on the lookout for them.
00:57:59Anyone seeing these men should report it promptly.
00:58:01For train holdup and murder,
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00:59:09I just saw a man look like one of the Devereaux boys.
00:59:31He hopped a ride on a truck.
00:59:32I'm sure it was the three Devereaux boys.
00:59:35Yes, I'm positive.
00:59:37What?
00:59:38Only two.
00:59:39Only two?
00:59:40Well, maybe they had a friend with them.
00:59:43At the end of a week, the Devereaux brothers were still at large.
00:59:46Their trail had been lost completely.
00:59:48The tempo of the chase died down, until finally it went off the front pages of newspapers
00:59:53altogether.
00:59:54It began to be referred to as that Devereaux case, as though already it had been assigned
00:59:59to the files of unsolved crimes.
01:00:02Well, I don't know the authorities they're quoting, but they're sure right.
01:00:12Devereaux Trail, stone cold.
01:00:14I don't have anyone to blame but myself, either.
01:00:16I bungled the whole job.
01:00:18That's why Wilcox came up here.
01:00:20Oh, I think Mr. Wilcox realizes all the good work you're doing.
01:00:24Why, without the leads you've dug up, they wouldn't even have identified the Devereaux
01:00:28brothers.
01:00:29Come on, now.
01:00:30Knock the gloom off your face.
01:00:31You don't want the boss to see you downhearted.
01:00:32Should I quit now, or wait till he fires me?
01:00:33Oh, you never can tell.
01:00:34He might have some good news for you.
01:00:35Well, here goes.
01:00:36I can certainly see what you've been up against.
01:00:37Yeah.
01:00:38Well, you got my wire.
01:00:39Yeah, I got it.
01:00:40Pressure from the powers that be, I take it.
01:00:41You can't blame them.
01:00:42It's bad all down the line.
01:00:43The Devereaux brothers have got to be caught.
01:00:44I know my head's in the block, Chief.
01:00:45I'd do anything I could if we had something to go on.
01:00:46But we haven't.
01:00:47We haven't.
01:00:48We haven't.
01:00:49We haven't.
01:00:50We haven't.
01:00:51We haven't.
01:00:52We haven't.
01:00:53We haven't.
01:00:54We haven't.
01:00:56Maybe you could use some help.
01:00:57I was thinking of sending Wilkinson over
01:00:58from the Oil Valley Division.
01:01:00Wilkinson's a good man.
01:01:01I'll bow out whenever you tell him to take over.
01:01:03Isn't that a little premature?
01:01:04Johnny's been doing a whale of a job so far.
01:01:06So far isn't good enough, Holmes.
01:01:08Didn't you know that?
01:01:11Chief's right, Phil.
01:01:13It's a payoff that counts.
01:01:16Excuse me, Mr. Wilcox.
01:01:18Oh, Johnny, Jake and Kat had some wonderful news for you.
01:01:22And I think you'll find the job's one hell good.
01:01:24I have some wonderful news for you.
01:01:26Go ahead, boys, tell him.
01:01:26Well, we were hunting bird's eggs.
01:01:28We found almost everything, except the hawk and a magpie.
01:01:31We were coming along the mill road
01:01:32when I spied the old pine with the top knocked off
01:01:34by lightning.
01:01:35We had a whale at the jig.
01:01:36Oh, boy, there's plenty of old pines.
01:01:37There's horses at the top.
01:01:38Wait a minute, wait a minute, one at a time.
01:01:39Go ahead, Tad, you talk first.
01:01:41We climbed that old tree, and guess what we found?
01:01:43Oh, please, Tad, this is no guessing game.
01:01:45Tell Tony what you found.
01:01:46A mail sack.
01:01:48A mail sack at the top of the pine?
01:01:50Yes, sir.
01:01:51Come on, let's go.
01:01:55Judging by the weight, the money's still in it.
01:01:57We'll find out when we get back to the office.
01:01:59Put on your horse, Sherry.
01:02:00No, wait, Chief, the Devereaux boys
01:02:02will come back for this sack the minute
01:02:03they run out of money.
01:02:04I don't think we should disappoint them.
01:02:06You've got something there.
01:02:07We leave the bag here, stick out the tree,
01:02:09the minute they show up, we grab them.
01:02:11Exactly.
01:02:13Only we take out the money first, just in case.
01:02:15Sounds like a good plan, Johnny.
01:02:17Authorized to open this sack?
01:02:18Yeah, by the postal authorities here.
01:02:23All right.
01:02:44Well, kids, looks like you earned
01:02:46yourself a fair day's pay, particularly
01:02:48if our plan goes through.
01:02:50Particularly if our plan goes through.
01:02:52Come on, Sheriff, let's put this in the saddlebag.
01:02:55Carrying out Johnny Douglas' orders,
01:02:57they transferred the money to the Sheriff's saddlebags,
01:03:00then filled the mail sack with paper and rocks,
01:03:02and put it back in its hiding place.
01:03:05Thus, the trap was baited,
01:03:06and the waiting began all over again.
01:03:11Where is it, Pete?
01:03:12The call just came in,
01:03:13from the switchback down to Tunnel 13.
01:03:15For a break, he just kicked a trap off the rods,
01:03:17and after he did, he remembered he looked like
01:03:19one of the Devereaux boys, the younger one.
01:03:21How long ago was that?
01:03:22Oh, not more than an hour or so.
01:03:23Sheriff, spot your men around here,
01:03:24and don't make a move unless I do.
01:03:26If it's possible, the brothers may have a rendezvous,
01:03:28and they'll both show up.
01:03:29Okay, Johnny.
01:03:30Pete, you lead the horses up the canyon for a mile or so.
01:03:33Duke, you cover from that manzanita over there on the hill.
01:03:37Max, you and Charlie from that bush over there.
01:03:39Lucille, you better go back with the boys.
01:03:50Somebody's coming.
01:03:51There was a signal from one of our boys.
01:03:52He signaled once, that means there's only one.
01:04:19♪♪
01:04:29♪♪
01:04:39♪♪
01:04:49There's still a chance he's gonna meet his brother.
01:04:51Let's follow him.
01:04:52Let's follow him.
01:04:53♪♪
01:05:11There could be another entrance to that mine shaft, Sheriff.
01:05:13You and your men take the other side of the ridge.
01:05:15The chief and I'll take this side.
01:05:19There's a likely spot for us up there, Johnny.
01:05:21Come along.
01:05:22♪♪
01:05:41Who's that?
01:05:43It's me, Paul.
01:05:45You all right, kid?
01:05:46Yeah.
01:05:48You fooled me.
01:05:49I was afraid you wouldn't make it and...
01:05:51you got here ahead of schedule.
01:05:55That was a tough week, Paul.
01:05:57Those cops never let up for a minute.
01:06:01Yeah, I know.
01:06:09Where'd that sack come from?
01:06:11From the tree where we left it.
01:06:13So that's why you got here early.
01:06:15You were gonna pull a fast one, weren't you, Paul?
01:06:18You were gonna grab your share of the money...
01:06:20and run off with that McCreery, Dave, weren't you?
01:06:22So what? Half the money in that sack belongs to me anyway.
01:06:24But not to spend on a cheap little dame.
01:06:26She was only making a play for you because you had her believing...
01:06:28you were gonna be a big shot someday.
01:06:30That's a lie.
01:06:31Why, you...
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01:06:38We don't have to find that and I'll really have to get to him, Paul.
01:06:42You don't want to forget, I killed four guys for this money.
01:06:44Not you.
01:06:45Remember that.
01:06:49So you had your story all fixed, didn't you?
01:06:52Well, you're not gonna get away with it.
01:06:54Brother or no brother, I'll bash your brains in.
01:06:58Tell me what you did with that money.
01:07:00Why aren't you hiding it?
01:07:09Paul.
01:07:11Paul.
01:07:13Answer me, you fool.
01:07:15What did you do with the money?
01:07:17Answer me.
01:07:18I want that money.
01:07:23All right, Devereaux, put up your hands.
01:07:33Come on, get up.
01:07:34Put your hands behind your back.
01:07:37And so the Devereaux case ended...
01:07:40with one brother dead and the other captured...
01:07:43and the long record of the special agents...
01:07:45for never failing to get their men continued unbroken.
01:07:49Things quieted down in Santa Marta after that...
01:07:52but not for long.
01:07:53And special agent Johnny Douglas...
01:07:55never complained again of things being dull.
01:07:58In fact, there were times when Johnny wondered...
01:08:01if things weren't happening too quickly.
01:08:05Yeah?
01:08:07Yeah?
01:08:09Another boy?
01:08:11Yeah, well...
01:08:12well, thanks.
01:08:13Come on, kids.
01:08:14Doc says we can go see your mama, your new kid brother.